What’s the best way to show off the capabilities of a smartphone that comes with a camera unlike anything we’ve seen before? Make a promo video shot entirely out of said phone of course.

That’s exactly what Nokia did with its 41MP-equipped 808 Pureview. The almost 2-minute long reel begins with a caption that says “This film was made using the Nokia 808 PureView” to tell viewers that Nokia means business when it comes to its PureView range phones.

The video highlights all the strengths of the 808 PureView’s epic 41MP camera including the amazing clarity and detail that the device is able to capture as well as the camera’s rapid photo-taking capabilities. While the 808 PureView’s video recording capabilities are nothing to shout about – only 720p seen in this video and grainy, by the looks of it – you can’t ignore the immense details seen in the 808 PureView’s stills. “Mind-blowing” is a word that readily comes to…erm…mind.

The Nokia 808 PureView is expected to hit the UK sometime next month but there’s no word on when the device will hit Malaysian stores. We have a hunch that it will be in June but we don’t have any intel to back this up.

In any case, we’re pretty sure many would be more interested in a PureView device that runs Windows Phone rather than Symbian. Don’t you think?

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The Nokia Lumia 610 will be available in Asia beginning with the Philippines in the last week of April. For the rest of us in Malaysia, Singapore, Indonesia, Taiwan, Hong Kong, Vietnam and China will be getting it several weeks after.

To recap, the Nokia Lumia 610 is an entry level Windows Phone which comes with an affordable price tag about RM600-800. It runs on a lower 800MHz processor, 256MB, 8GB of storage and a 3.7″ WVGA screen. In terms of OS, it runs on a Windows Phone 7.5 Tango which is optimised to run with lower hardware specification. At a lower price point, the Lumia 610 is expected to accelerate Windows Phone adoption especially with the youth segment.

To get to know the Lumia 610 better, head over to Nokia’s product page.

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Microsoft has been promoting its mobile platform with its Smoked by Windows Phone campaign. If you’re heading to PC Fair this weekend, you can catch them and see if your device is faster than a Windows Phone. RM100 vouchers will be given out if your phone is faster.

Over at Nokia, they are running their own version that’s called “Blown away by Lumia” in India. Samsung obviously wasn’t too happy about this and called the campaign unethical. Nevertheless, Nokia claims that there’s nothing wrong as it is a voluntary exercise.

Head after the break for several clips from the “Blown away by Lumia” challenge that’s happening in India.

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You probably have heard about the “Smoked by Windows Phone” challenge that has been going on in the US. Now the challenge is happening right here in Malaysia this weekend (14th & 15th April) at PC Fair.

Microsoft is betting a RM100 voucher that their Windows Phone 7 is faster than yours. After all, Nokia claims that the “Smart Phone beta test” is finally over. So calling all iOS, Symbian, Bada, BlackBerry, Android & Meego users. If you’re up for the challenge, head over to PC Fair which is happening at KL Convention Centre.

For more information on the challenge, head over to Windows Phone Malaysia Facebook page.

Watch the teaser video after the break.

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Nokia has announced a its NFC enabled version of the Nokia Lumia 610 at Monaco today. This is Nokia’s 8th NFC device and their first Windows Phone with NFC built-in.

The Lumia 610 NFC is certified for contactless transactions with Mastercard Paypass & Visa payWave and it will be available on Monaco’s Orange network soon. Just like other NFC enabled Nokia devices, the Lumia 610 NFC can also be paired with their NFC accessories as well.

Windows Phone 7 doesn’t support NFC natively in the OS. To make NFC possible on the Lumia 610 NFC, they had to add a NFC software stack on top of the platform and additional NFC hardware.

For more information, head over to Nokia’s Conversation Blog.

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To kick off the Nokia Lumia 900 fever in the US, Nokia has launched a new campaign site called Smartphone Beta Test. The new campaign claims that if you’ve been using a smart phone in the last 5 years (indirectly hinting at iPhone introduction in 2007), you’re part of a secret experiment which helped Nokia create the Nokia Lumia 900.

Over the top marketing strategy or just simply brilliant? Head after the break to watch the ads.

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UPDATE: We have checked at a Nokia Store and stocks for the White Lumia 800 will be arriving sometime next week.

If you’ve been waiting for the white version of the Nokia Lumia 800, this is it. Nokia has started advertising on the papers that the White version is now available alongside its other cyan, magenta and black colours.

Price remains the same at RM1,499, which is a RM151 less from its initial launch price of RM1,650 two months ago. So far no news yet on its larger Lumia 900 sibling.

Thanks to @jnoathan for the alert via twitter!

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The Nokia Lumia 800 outright priced has been slashed from RM1,650 to RM1,499 (RM151 less) as indicated at IMCC and various on ground stores. The Lumia 710 price appears unchanged at RM999.

This may also be indicative that the larger Lumia 900 with a 4.3″ AMOLED screen, bigger battery capacity & front facing camera will go on sale very soon. The Lumia 900 that we are getting in Malaysia is the non-LTE version that supports DC-HSPA up to 42Mbps.

In terms of Telco bundling, so far only Celcom has revised its bundled pricing from as low RM868 (previously RM998)with 18 months contract of Celcom Exec 250. For more information, head over to Celcom’s Lumia 800 page.

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About a couple a weeks ago, U Mobile dropped the hint that they will be offering the Nokia Lumia 800. Today, you can get one of the top-selling Windows Phone device for as low as RM1,049 when you subscribe to a U Mobile postpaid plan.

As with all U Mobile device offerings, your options are straight forward, choose from three available plans and depending on your monthly subscription fee, the operator will subsidise the phone pricing to match.

Full details on the U Mobile plans here. Also, check out our plan-for-plan comparison on Nokia Lumia 800 offerings from Celcom, DiGi and Maxis here.

Big thanks to @khainiz94 for the tip!

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The Nokia 808 PureView drummed up a considerable amount of interest when it was unveiled at the Mobile World Congress last week. Packing a massive 41MP 1/1.2” image sensor that’s five times larger than standard sensors in smartphones and three times larger than sensors in most compact shooters, the 808 PureView with its novel – for a smartphone – pixel-binding method promises an immensely better picture quality than standard smartphone digital imaging methods.

The 808 PureView created a lot of buzz but many didn’t like Nokia’s decision to mate the device with the ageing Symbian platform (even if it is the latest “Belle” update). With Nokia now in partnership with Microsoft, most of expected the 808 to run Windows Phone instead.

So will we see a Windows Phone PureView device from Nokia?

Looking at Nokia’s commitment to the Windows Phone platform, it’s safe to assume that Nokia will eventually come up with a PureView Windows Phone. However, Jo Harlow, Nokia’s Executive Vice President for Smart Devices, obliterated any room for assumption or speculation when she confirmed that Nokia will indeed make PureView technology available in the its upcoming Windows Phone devices. Harlow didn’t offer much detail but said that a PureView Windows Phone device “will not take very long”.

Looking at Nokia’s trend of re-using designs to speed up development, we can pretty much expect a PureView device running on Windows Phone to look very much like the 808 (that elongated home and power button you see in the picture above can certainly make room for the standard Windows Phone navigation button-array) and we can also expect the device to be available within this year.

With regards to when this PureView Windows Phone will make it to Malaysia, it’s too early to say but we’ve been hearing a lot of talk about Nokia gearing up for something big in June – and this could just be it.

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